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August 24, 2017 Gulf of Mexico

The Coast Guard is preparing response efforts for Hurricane Harvey’s impact on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, Thursday. The Coast Guard is working closely with all local and state emergency operation centers and is establishing incident command posts to manage Coast Guard storm operations. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston and Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi captains of the port have set port condition yankee for the ports of Houston, Texas City, Galveston, Freeport and Corpus Christi.Stay informed. Information can be obtained through local television, radio, Internet, and VHF radio channel 16. click here to read the bulletin 19:25

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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